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A PHASE OF THE 



ALCOHOL QUESTION 



FOR 



YOUNG PEOPLE WHO THINK. 



BY 

J. R. SMITH, M. D 



WRITTEN BY REQUEST OF MRS. If. J. HUBBLE, DISTRICT 

SUPERINTENDENT OF SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT 

OF W. C. T. U. FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. 



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PREFACE. 



Prefatory to the following attempt to set alcohol 
in its proper light before the young people, I wish 
to quote a few words from Wm. H. Cook A M., 
M.D.,whom I consider the peer of any medical phil- 
osopher of this age. He says ; < 'When we surve}' 
the terrible consequences of the use of alcoholics one 
can but exclaim 'woe to him that putteth the cup 
to his neighbor's lips!' The medical profession is 
far from being blameless in this particular. By 
their prescriptions, many a man — aye and many a 
noble woman— has had a love of strong drink de- 
veloped, and many a subjected thirst has been 
aroused to fury. Under the false theory that poi- 
sons can become good remedies, — that the most 
frightful evils can be changed into wholesome 
blessings, — the medical profession has made itself 
the ally of the saloon in fostering the drink ap- 
petite, and in making the use of intoxicants appear 
both useful and respectable. Under the guidance 
of a false theory, the medical profession furnishes 
the drinker and the saloon-keeper a final argument 
for the use of alcohol. Thus the medical profes- 
sion today keeps alive the cause of the drunkard 



IV PREFACE. 

and the saloonist, and saps the foundation of 
temperance, and prevents the success of prohibitory 
legislation." 1 will only add that the adage, "Ubi 
virus, ibi virtus;" "Where poison is, there is vir- 
tue," unquestionably must have received its 
initial energy and germ thought in the nebula of 
hell seons before the snake metaphorically used his 
hypodermics on Mother Eve in the garden of Eden. 
1 so judge because of the overshadowing preponder- 
ance of the dogma in so-called medical science while 
the world is yet so young. J. R. S. 

Springfield, Mo., March, 1895. 



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LESSON 1. 



Q. What is the physiological unit in the com- 
position of the living organized body? 

A. The cell. 

Q. Describe a cell? 

A. A cell is made up of living matter, (Bio- 
plasm: Bios, life, and plasma, a mold,) and dead 
matter: that is, formed material. 

Q. Explain the difference between the living and 
dead matter, which you say makes up the cell? 

A. Living matter is structureless, semifluid, 
transparent and colorless. It is the only matter 
that can grow, divide itself, move and multiply. It 
is the only matter that can take up food (pabulum) 
and convert it into its own substance. Dead matter 
or formed material, is that substance which was 
once, but which has ceased to be, living matter, by 
having passed from the condition of food into and 
through the living state, into a dead state, and prior 
to its disintegration, by a process known as meta- 
bolism. 



() A PHASE OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION 

Q. Tell us something more of this bioplasm? 

A. It is the same in vegetables as in animals — 
the same physically and chemically. A bioplast is 
about 1-50,000 to 1-3,000 of an inch in diameter. 
It is the onl} T substance known that inherently has 
the power to move itself. Every thing on the earth 
that is alive, owes this condition of life to the pres- 
ence of these bioplasts in its tissues, and every 
part of an organism as bone, skin, cartilage, mus- 
cles, nerves, &c, that has vitality, is alive only 
because of the presence of this living bioplasm. The 
bioplast gets its nourishment from the food (pabu- 
lum, ) in the circulating fluid (blood, juices, sap,) 
by a process known as endosmosis; a Greek word 
meaning "I seek inward." This food is drawn 
through the cell wall and assimilated by the bioplast 
and becomes a part of it. 

Q. What becomes of the substance of the bio- 
plast after it has served its purpose as living matter? 

A. It is further hardened and takes its place in 
the cell wall, thereby keeping a zone of dead matter, 
(formed material, ) around the bioplast. 

Q. What motive power, (or mode of motion, if 
you like) is set free by this process you have just 
described? 

A, Heat. By the condensation of the fluid food 
as it becomes the semifluid bioplasm and the semi- 
fluid bioplasm as it becomes solid, formed material, 
calorific energy is set free because of the reduced 



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capacity of the substance to retain it. This is the 
source of animal heat. 

Q. What further process takes place in the cell 
wall? 

A. The cell wall is disintegrated by the action 
of this heat, and moisture, and is eliminated from 
the system by means of the sweat glands, kid- 
neys, &c. 

Q. What term would you employ to express all 
these changes? 

A. Metabolism. 

i 

Q. Are these processes all necessary to the con- 
tinued existence of an organized being? 

A. They are absolutely indispensable, even to 
the complete elimination of the product of the dis- 
integrated formed material. 

Q. What power, energy, potentiality, force or 
whatever it may be called, carries on and supervises 
these processes? 

A. The vital force. 

Q. It is said by some, that chemical energy 
has this office? 

A. The living body is a physiological, not 
a chemical being. Chemical force does not act 
on bioplasm until after it is dead. Vital force 
builds and sustains organized beings in opposition 
to chemical force. Chemical force always tends 
to reduce complex organisms to simple chemical 



8 A PHASE OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION 

elements, or specific chemical compounds, which are 
incapable of exhibiting any of the functions of 
living matter. 



LESSON II. 

Q. What is albumen? 

A. Dr. Carpenter describes it as, ''A thick 
viscous substance, which is a constituent part of 
both animal fluids and solids, and which exists 
nearly pure in\he white of an egg." 

Q. Of what is albumen composed? 

A. Of about 54 percent of carbon; 16 percent 
of nitrogen; 2 per cent of sulphur, and a small pro- 
portion of phosphorus. 

Q. Where is it to be found most plentiful 1 }'? 

A. Being soluble in water, in that condition is 
found in the egg, in the juice of flesh, the serum of 
the blood and the juice of vegetables. 

Q. Are there other compounds in the living 
body that resemble albumen? 

A. Yes. Fibrine and casine. Indeed albumen 
may be considered the raw material of fibrine, and 
fibrine is supposed to be animalized albumen. 

Q. Then it seems that albumen plays a very 
important part in the animal economy? 

A. Very true it does. It forms the starting- 
point of all animal tissue; for, in an egg, during 



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incubation all parts of the chick are formed out of it. 

Q. Tell us something of the behavior of albu- 
men under some conditions and in contact with 
some substances? 

A. Under heat at a tempertaure of about 150 
degrees Farenheit, it coagulates and is no longer 
soluble in water. In alcohol its conduct is the 
same as under heat. In contact with corrosive 
sublimate (Hg Chi 2 ), sugar of lead ( Pb (C2 H3- 
02) 2 ), blue vitriol ( Cu S04 X 5 H2 ), nitrate 
of silver (Ag NO 3), albumen forms insoluble 
compounds and cannot then be used as a tissue 

builder - ^n*^ 

Q. Do you mean to say that these degrees 
would have there effects on albumen were they 
brought in contact with it in the system, in the 
blood or brain for instance? 

A. Science so bears out the statement. Ex- 
periments so teach. 

Q. But man}' intelligent physicians prescribe 
these drugs as remedies for desease? 

A. Errors votaries have been legion in all ages; 
and only the Zetetic may hope to avoid the evils of 
a false philosophy. 

Q. What other product of vitality is very much 
like albumen in its physical properties? 

A. Bioplasm. 



10 A PHASE OF THE LIRUOK QUESTION 

LKSSON III. 

Q. Will you explain the origin of the word, 
intoxicate? 

A. The word is derived from a (ireek word, 
toxicon, meaning a poison in which arrows were 
dipped. This word, toxicon, comes from another 
word in the same language, on the same root, toxi- 
cos, pertaining to a bow or arrow, and this last is 
from the root word toxon, bow, arrow. 

Q. Must we then infer that when a person is 
intoxicated, such person is poisoned, and vice versa? 

A. That would be a philological inference, de- 
monstrable b} T facts. 

Q. Will you be so kind as to give a definition 
of a poison? 

A. A poison is anything whose natural tendency 
in action is to destroy either the integrity or funtion 
of living tissue; excepting thermal and electrical 
agents and mechanical means. 

Q. What would be a safe yet. simple test to de- 
termine the poisonous quality of a drug? 

A. It would be to subject living tissue or bio- 
plasm to the action of the drug and observe the 
effects of the same. 

Q. How could you observe the effects of a yoi- 
son on bioplasm? 

A. This can be, and has been done by, manes 
of the microscope. 



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Q. Give the behavior of bioplasm under such 
conditions? 

A. When brought in contact with a functional poi- 
son or a chemical poison strong enough to kill it, but 
not strong enough to disintegrate it the bioplast 
immediately assumes a spherical form, and so re- 
mains until the chemical energy inherent in its 
elements destroys its integrity. 

Q. Will the bioplast assume this form under 
the influence of other agents not poisonous? 

A. Yes. 

Q . Then what further proceedings are necessary 
to determine the poisonous or non-poisonous proper- 
ties of this agent under test? 

A. By still furthur subjecting the bioplast to 
the action of a pure stimulant, if it has not been 
killed by the drug under test, rapid ameboid move- 
ments will supervene. If a pure, inocuous relaxant 
is used instead of the stimulant, the motion will be 
a slow lazy like spreading of the bioplast. Both 
actions showing that life is not extinct or even 
lessened. 



LESSON IV. 



Q. What does the word alcohol mean? 
A. It is an Arabic word; and primarily signified 
a very fine powder, used to color the eyebrows. 



] '2 A PHASE OF THE LlQUOR QUESTION 

The fineness of this powder lead to the application 
of the word to any supposed highly rectified spirit. 
Though this use of the word was not known in 
Arabia for many long years. 

Q. How is alcohol obtained? 

A. It is obtained by distillation from water in 
which saccharin matter ( sugar ) has undergone the 
process known as vinous fermentation. 

Q. Explain this process known as fermentation? 

A. It is a decomposition of starch, sugar, &c. , 
under the influence of water, air and warmth, and 
a recombining of their elements in another form. 

Q. Tell us something more of it, as it relates to 
the formation of alcohol from corn? 

A. The starch of the corn under the influence 
of warmth, air and water ferments, (sours). The 
carbon, Hydrogen and oxygen of which it is largly 
composed are separated and recombined forming 
grape sugar. This in turn decomposes, separates 
its elements, which again combine in a different 
form as alcohol, which is distilled at a rather low 
temperature. 

Q. Knowing this, are we to conclude that there 
is no alcohol in corn or other grain? 

A. Most assuredly. There is not in a ton of 
sound grain one single drop of alcohol. The grain 
must be first torn up chemically ; then some of its 
elements recombine to form grape sugar; then this, 



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as before said is chemically torn up, and again some 
of the elements recombine to form alcohol. 

Q. It seems then, that all the processes in the 
formation of alcohol are those of decay and death? 

A. Sucn are the teachings of science. 

Q. Can you name the elements that ultimately 
combine to form alcohol : also the quantity of each? 

A. Yes. They are Carbon 52.67 per cent, Oxy- 
gen 34.43 per cent, Hydrogen 12.90 per cent. Its 
chemical formula is, C2 HG 0. — that is; two atoms 
of Carbon, six atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of 
Oxygen in each molecule of alcohol. 



LESSON V. 



Q. You said in a former lesson, when speaking 
of the effects of different drugs on bioplasm, that 
you used a pure stimulant. Was this stimulant 
alcohol? 

A. By no means. Alcohol is not a stimulant. 
Besides, when the bioplast is immersed in even a 
very weak dilution of alcohol, it immediately as- 
sumes the spherical form and can never more be 
made to resume any action which would indicate 
life. It is dead! 

Q. Are we to infer, then, that alcohol is a poi- 
son and not a medicine? 



1 4 A PHASE OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION 

A. Such is not only an inference; it is a truth. 
No organism can live in alcohol. 

Q. But is not a poison a medicine also, under 
certain conditions? 

A. Never! That which alwa^ys, and in its very 
nature tends to destroy life cannot be a medicine. 

Q. How is it that many sick people recover 
health when alcohol is administered? 

A. Simply from the fact that the life force ex- 
isting m the bioplasm, is sufficiently powerful to 
resist its death tending action, as well as to restore 
a healthful condition of the organs diseased. 

Q. In what manner does alcohol affect bioplasm? 

A. Bioplasm greatly resembling albumen in its 
physical properties and chemical composition, be- 
haves in the presence of alcohol in the manner che 
lattev substance does. This may be occularly 
demonstrated by dropping some of the white of an 
egg, which is nearly pure albumen, into a glass of 
alcohol. The albumen is solidified. 

Q. You say that nothing can live in alcohol. 
Will tissue decay in it? 

A. No. Neither vegetable or animal tissue, will 
decay in alcohol. 

Q. Then if one could control living tissue just 
far enough with alcohol to stop, in a measure, its 
waste by disease, would it not that far, and in that 
case, be a good medicine? 



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A. Certainly not. for the reason that this pro- 
cess of waste is absolutely necessary to the preser- 
vation of health, and its restoration when lost; and 
must not be interfered with. The only way to meet 
the demand caused by waste of tissue, is, to keep 
the bioplasm in a condition that w T ill favor the as- 
similation of food, and deposit of formed material. 
This is metabolism ; and alcohol prevents or lessens 
metabolic changes, according to amount taken in 
the system. 

Q. But is not alcohol a food, and does it not 
combine with the oxygen in the inspired air in a pro- 
cess of combustion, the result of which is the pro- 
duction of animal heat? 

A. Alcohol is not a food in that sense, or any 
other sense, from the fact that the greater portion 
passes out of the system by way of the lungs and 
the various excretory organs unchanged. 

That portion of alcohol not thus eliminated, forms 
with the decomposed organic matter a new com- 
pound which is not readily disintegrated; and which 
cannot be assimilated by any known form of bio- 
plasm. In this way food (pabulum) either in the 
stomach or circulation becomes incapable and un- 
fitted for the supply of material for bioplasmic 
growth, and through this process the renewing of 
the waste of tissue. Moreover, animal heat is not 
produced by the combination, in combustion, of 
oxygen w T ith carbon or any other combustible sub- 



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stance; but is set free during, and in consequence 
of, the metabolic changes already mentioned. That 
is, as the food, (fluid,) becomes bioplasm, (semifluid), 
and the bioplasm becomes solid, (formed material,) 
heat is eliminated and manifests itself. Then when 
the solid, (formed material,) having passed from 
under the control of the life force in the bioplasm 
is solely effected by heat and moisture it is by these 
disintegrated and rendered fluid again, in which 
condition it is eliminated. Having done its work 
in the vital economy it is of no further use. The 
partial exception to the above is found in the hair, 
nails, teeth, epithelium and epidermis, which, as 
formed material, are finally disposed of by abrasion, 
desquamation, excision, exfoliation, &c. Alcohol 
stops or retards all these processes, hence it lowers 
the temperature ot the livirg body. It simply and 
effectively tends to shut down the bioplasm factory 
and discharges a portion or ail of the life builders, 
and they stars^e and then 4t turn to dust" under the 
control of chemical energy. 



LESSON VI. 



Q. What is a medicine? 

A. The word comes from the Latin, mederi, 
medicus; meaning, to heal. Hence a medicine is 
any substance which, when brought in contact with 



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living tissue, will directly influence that tissue in 
the direction of the action of the vital force, as 
against the action of chemical forces. 

Q. This is rather confusing. Can you not 
make it more plain? 

A. I will try. All vital action is carried on by 
alternate relaxations and contractions of tissue. A 
medicine, to be such, must ait. one, or the other, or 
both of these actions and do so in strict accord 
with vital intention. 

Q. That we may be the better able to compre- 
hend this subject, perhaps it would be well to state 
the modes of departure from health of living tissue? 

A. Living tissue can depart from its normal, 
heal thf ul condition in but three ways : too great and 
persistent contraction ; too great and persistent re- 
laxation; loss of strength, power, vital force. 

Q. May there not be such condition in which 
alcohol or other poisons, would aid in a return of 
tissue to its normal, when it had thus departed 
therefrom? 

A. This could n ot be ; for as was said by a writer 
in the Boston Medical Journal, ' 'All poisons, what- 
ever their differences in other respects, ag;ree in this; 
they suddenly and rapidly extinguish a great pro- 
portion of the vitality of the system/' x\nd as Prof. 
John P. Harrison said of a poison most commonly 
employed. "It is a powerful depressor of the 
energies of life." 



18 A PHASE OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION" 

Q. What is the true test of a remedy? 

A. The true test of a remedy, is its constant 
tendency in action to restore directly the healthy 
state: and alcohol and other poisons destro} T life in 
the bioplast; hence cannot be remedies medicinally. 

LESSON VII. 

Q. Will you give some names as authority for 
the foregoing views on alcohol? 

A. With pleasure. Prof. G. Bungc, Chair of 
Physological Chemistiy, in the University of Basle, 
Switzerland, says: "That all the working of alcohol 
in the system which usually are considered excite- 
ment or stimulation, are only the indications of 
paralysis. The benumbing of all sense of fatigue 
or weariness, belongs also among the tokens of 
paralysis, so commonly attribute to stimulation. 
* * * * * * The error that 
alcohol strengthens the weary is most fatal in the 
class to which the largest part of the population 
belongs." Concurring in the above 1 mention 
James Ross, M. D., F. R. C. P., England. The 
eminent Dr. Semnola of Naples, Dr. George R. 
Achor and Prof. Gardner of Scotland. Sir Lionel 
Beale one of the greatest scientists of the age says: 
"It (alcohol) does not act as food. It cuts short 
the rapidly growing bioplasm or causes it to live 
more slowly ; and tends to cause a diseased texture. 
*■**-'£ It is easy to prove that by 



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these measures many cells^that were alive are killed, 
and those that escape death grow more slowly than 
before." Prof. N. S. Davis, M.D., of Chicago says: 
"1 have demonstrated by the last forty \ears of 
actual experience that no form of alcoholic drink, 
either fermented or distilled, is necessary or desira- 
ble for internal use, either in health or any of the 
varied forms of disease: but that health can be 
better preserved, and cfisease more successfully 
treated without the use of such drinks. * * 

* * * * I have never yet seen a 

case in which the use of alcoholic drinks either in- 
creased the force of the heart's action or strengthen- 
ed the patient." 

Q. Have you any statistics whereby we may 
judge between the alcoholic and non-alcoholic treat- 
ment of disease? 

A Such statistics are plentiful and easily ob- 
tianed. Dr. Davis, above refered to, gives the 
statistics of many hospitals where alcohol is used in 
the treatment of typhoid fever and pneumonia, and 
then places besides these the results of non-alcohol 
treatment in his own words in Mercy Hospital, 
Chicago, showing a much lower death rate in the 
latter. Dr. Steadman, of Boston City hospital, 
compares 1042 cases of typhoid fever treated with 
alcoholics, with a mortality of 386, with 1042 
cases of the same disease under the non-alcoholic 
treatment having a loss of 81. 



20 A PHASE OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION 

Q. This is awful! 

A. Yes. It may be said with truth, referring 
to the above that 305 of the fatal cases resulted so 
simply because they were killed with alcohol — lit- 
teraily poisoned — intoxicated to death!! Dr. Bull 
states that sixty-five out of every one hundred pneu- 
monia patients in the New York hospitals die under 
the exhibition of alcohol while only five die in the 
London Temperance hospital under the non-alcohol- 
ic treatment. 

Q. 1 suppose we have gone as far as we can, 
for want ot time, in this investigation? 

A. Very well! But before closing our labors I 
wish to quote a few words from Prof. Bedding. 
He says: "Alcohol is a poison diminishing or sus- 
pending the vital activities of the body; arresting 
or retarding the nutritive changes and disintegrative 
processes, and thus lowering the temperature and 
reducing the secretions and excretions; in a word, 
deranging all the processes of animalization. " And 
in conclusion we may state that any drug which, 
when taken into the system tends to destroy bio- 
plasm or its function is detrimental to the health 
and morals of the person taking it. For we cannot 
have the best morals without good health. 




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REFLECTIONS. 

<i Feed My Sheep" — Jesus. 

The physical body partakes largely, as to texture 
healthfulness, &c., of the nature of the food assim- 
ilated. By constantly feeding certain kinds of 
food the various tissues, as bone, muscle, nerve or 
cartilage may be increased almost at will. 

This law obtains with equal force in man's spirit- 
ual organism. And when The Loving One gave the 
order above quoted, no one knew better than He the 
awful responsibility placed on that impulsive Apos - 
tie to whom it was given. He knew that good food 
for the soul — moral and intellectual food — in short 
truth, administered by a brave faithful hand, was 
absolutely necessary in order to the redemption of 
this sinning, groaning, weeping, crime cursed earth. 
He knew that if the soul could be constantly filled 
with the bread of life exemplified in His life and 
maxims, the oncoming ages would see, instead of 
fears and tears and crime scared visages, a race 
whose every heart, thought and impulse would be 
reeling with love and laughter, because of perfect 
health of soul and body. This beautiful dream of 
philosopher and philanthropist can only be made a 
living reality by feeding the physical and psychical 
human with food, whose assimilation, on the one 
hand, will make sound physical tissue, and on the 
other hand will construct sound mental and moral 



22 A PH \<K OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION 

tissue, if that term be allowed in this connection. 
And may we not pertinently ask the question ; "May 
there not be a psychical unit of organic structure, 
as well as a physical, that must have the sincere 
milk of the word of truth, that its spiritual being 
'may grow thereby?' ' If so, and we feed that 
psychical bioplasmic unit with food or medicines not 
in accord with its nature may it not "grow more 
slowly" or shrivel and die? 

By a violation of the laws of our being, eith er 
physical or psychial, aan abnormal or dseased con- 
dition is produced, which may result in the death 
of body or soul. Unquestionably the Being who 
created us provided remedial means in the stored up 
energies of the lower organic structures whereby we 
may, in a measure, bring ourselves to the normal. 
The physican is supposed to attend these needs of 
our bodies, and the priest or moralist, those of our 
souls. In the physical world we have these energies 
conserved and prepared to the physician's hand in 
the Kingdom below the animal. But in this King- 
dom, as in all others, the useful and the baneful are 
mixed. But the same Wisdom that made us, gave 
us intelligence that we might select the appropriate 
remedy and reject the inappropriate And so our 
necessary and good food and medicines grow on the 
same soil with the deadly toadstool and poisonous 
belladonna. Instinct teaches the lower animals to 
select the appropriate and reject the injurious of 



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each. Intelligent, unprejudiced investigation must 
be man's guide or he must pa}' the penalt}\ Life 
cannot be conserved by that which in its nature tends 
to destroy it. Bad morals cannot be made good by 
filthy soul-food. All living things above the veget- 
able kingdom must be fed from organic matter. 
x\berations from health must be rectified by the ex- 
hibition of the energies of organized matter which 
are in accord with vitality. And so of the soul, 
organic energy as found in the various societies of 
the civilized world is a necessity as a moral food 
for the growth of the soul, or medicament for per- 
verted taste and vitiated socia 1 conditions. 

Let the work of the Woman's Christian Tem- 
perance Union, Young Men's Christian Association 
and Christian Endeavor £0 on. God is with them. 



A THOUGHT ON HEREDITY. 

The few words following are earnestly commend- 
to heads of families who may read these pages. 

"The evil that men," and women, "do lives after 
them." And we have the plaintive and wailing 
witnesses to this truth in the imbecile and nerv- 
ously prostrated children that crowd all the walks 
of life, whenever parents have taken this accursed 
stuff, either as a beverage or a* a medicine. 

Again: We have the sad, silent witnesses to the 



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same truth in the millions of "tiny mounds where 
the hopes of. earth are laid 'neath the tear wet mold" 
in the cemeteries that should hold onl}' the aged 
ones who have toiled out their threescore years and 
ten in the service of their Master. 0! it is sad to 
think of the wrecked lives and broken hearts that 
owe all this wrecking and breaking to the folly of 
parental ignorance and prejudice. AYell ma}' we 
say, pointing to that learned and eminent profession 
whose false teaching has brought this ruin of body 
and soul on humanity, as Francesca said to Alp, 

"Dark will thy doom be, darker still 

Thine immortality of ill." 




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